For sure, a (large/well-founded) university or a big corporation could run these, but I'm not sure who would call that "local" so much as private datacenter or internal. You could run it on AWS Bedrock or Azure foundry too and those don't really share data back to the AI companies, or zero data retention cloud for open weight models. I think "local" as having maybe an rtx5090 or a super up Mac studio, which will very slowly run some lightweight models but I'm not sure if those are particularly useful for anything beyond high school biology papers.

What kind of hardware is he running? To run frontier open weight model like Kimi K3 you need at least 500k-1mm in compute equipment, meaning minimum two NVIDIA DGX B300s; which are often unobtainium due to high demand. Then you need ridiculous cooling and electricity, not something you put in a garage or office server closet. Or you can use a zero data retention cloud provider and pay per usage...

I always thought the prepper bunkers sold to the middle class and rich alike were a useless scam. Most are located well outside the metropolitan areas they typically live or spend most of their time in, and require transportation to break through massive traffic and other pandemonium to get to. Helicopter pilots aren't going to care about their clients then, they're going to save their families first. Money and even gold etc will be instantly worthless, currency becomes shelf stable food, water, shelter and ammunition. The contractors who built the bunkers will know where to go and loot them, and tell their friends where to go too. Their "rightful" owners will be greeted with empty bunkers or someone else wielding a shotgun.

Did you only watch the pilot of the original series, where Captain Pike said he couldn't get used to a woman on the bridge? If you watched it further than that, it was considered pretty woke for its time. I'd also argue if more men behaved like Jean-Luc Picard, there would have been little reason for the woke movement to exist. Be a Picard, not TOS Pike (but maybe SNW Pike, he's alright).

If the financial reports, EBITDA calculations, salaries and numbers of machines managed, OSes, RMM/MDM software reports and other data from numerous MSPs also lie, then sure. Short of that, no. FWIW, early in my career I was a *nix admin and I actively loathe Microsoft software, but real and recent numbers tell a different story about administration costs.

Perhaps this was quite unlike Windows in the 2000s, but today with automation like MS InTune and usage of powershell scripts the gap isn't there anymore. MSPs managing Mac, Windows and Linux endpoints see little difference in the headcount required to manage them, many of the popular MSP toolkits like NinjaOne for example support all three OSes, and AI can port custom automation scripts easily across platforms. Much like the term UNIX admin is no longer in use (Cloud engineers/DevOps/SRE etc are the titles now), your description is historical and dates back some decades.

Harvard is an educational institution with a massive endowment that makes them independent and have to answer to no one. Apple is a publicly traded company whose one objective is to make money. The board is compelled to fire a CEO who fails at this and replace them with someone who can deliver more money to shareholders. They did this to Steve Jobs in 1985. If they fail to do this corporate raiders can sue and even conduct a hostile takeover. Harvard's board is concerned with their brand reputation, so graduates of their schools can proudly weave "I went to Harvard" into every professional conversation they have for the rest of their lives. Harvard has incentive to weather short-term monetary losses to preserve their pretentious brand image. There is no risk of a shareholder revolt or hostile takeover. No matter what happens, there will always be more students willing to pay to go to Harvard. Problems in higher ed will affect and lead to the closure of lower ranked schools first. A school like Harvard that counts founding fathers like John Adams as graduates works like the Catholic church, in decades and centuries, not in presidential terms or daily stock value changes.

I'd hate to even justify this with a response, but almost all smartphones lack a physical keyboard so a hardware keylogger wouldn't even be possible. Beyond that there's no information to suggest some type of global smartphone backdoor exists, if it did it would put vendors like Cellebrite out of business instead of the FBI paying them for their hacks.

Unfortunately while I see you for trying to "own the libs," your Breitbart-world fantasy where abortion is for Democrat women is a complete fabrication. Rates are similar across party lines with Independent women having slightly more abortions. Democrat women are significantly less likely to report ever being pregnant in the first place, probably because they are smart and educated about birth control. https://www.kff.org/womens-hea...

Mines $650, but given the fact the primary vector malware ends up on endpoints via social engineering etc and those aren't usually internet reachable externally, I'm going to conclude that's a way of saying "I actually don't know but needed to say something snarky."

Indeed, but on normal corporate networks (if IPv6 is even enabled) devices are still behind a firewall or ZTNA/web proxy like Zscaler, and the external interface for those addresses are filtered to disallow direct ingress.

If your cloud environment is binding an instance e.g. EC2 to a routable public IP and you have any ports exposed, it's going to fail every check in the books. Some careless folks or noobs might do this, but in that case, you've probably also got other security problems. Longstanding best practice is using a load balancer/CloudFormation/CloudFlare/CDN etc for any public ingress. This also wouldn't be the case for endpoints, which my example was around.

Please explain how my statement was factually incorrect in any way.

In the case of GrapheneOS the "someone" often means law enforcement, as the current famous case regarding the duress code exemplifies (https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-duress-pin-us-prosecution-3691271/). It could also mean an "evil maid" scenario, or an "evil lover" or someone with time-limited physical access to the device. Most of the point of using GrapheneOS relates to these physical exploits, remote exploitation of an iPhone or Android device is possible but rather difficult in comparison to the physical ones. The physical exploits just require using a device like a GreyKey or Cellebrite, which any law enforcement organization can simply buy without having to deploy zero-day exploits; which are mostly the realm of intelligence agencies rather than local police and CBP.

Unfortunately we blue state libs don't produce nearly as many offspring as red state folks do, so it wouldn't work for long. None of us can compete with the likes of Brigham Young.

They literally still have inmates, almost entirely black, picking cotton while an overseer with a shotgun on horseback watches them. https://peoplesdispatch.org/20...